UCSF breast cancer patients now have the opportunity to participant in a one day program that gives them a practical roadmap for coping with cancer with a greater sense of control, resilience and purposefulness.

Created and delivered by Greg Hicks, the workshop helps women who have recently completed treatment for breast cancer create a personal plan to address the psychological and emotional aspects through this significant life transition using an evidenced-based approach.

The network's research program was launched today in a pilot study of 80 children (3rd, 5th, and 7th graders) at Seacrest School in Half Moon Bay. The team thanks Laurie Schoeffler for her leadership in setting up the pilot program.

To learn more about the NSF research program on executive function and academic achievement, see the UCSF edneuro website here or email Dr. Uncapher at melina.uncapher@ucsf.edu.

With colleagues Anthony Stigliani and Dr Kalanit Grill-Spector of Stanford University, Dr Weiner contributed to a research publication showing that the temporal frequency is an organizing principle of visual cortex.

IAN's Dr. Kevin Weiner published a paper this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), helping to resolve a century-old controversy about a white matter bundle in the brain called the vertical occipital fasciculus (VOF). Dr. Weiner collaborated with Stanford colleagues Drs Brian Wandell, Jason Yeatman, Franco Pestilli, Ariel Rokem, and Aviv Mezer.

The Guardian wrote a great piece covering the paper. Read about it here

Dr. Melina Uncapher presented her research from Stanford's Memory Lab to members and scholars of the MacArthur Research Network on Law and Neuroscience. Findings included demonstrating that people can use simple strategies to 'beat' a brain-based (fMRI) memory detector. Collaborators Dr. Anthony Wagner and Dr. Jesse Rissman presented related work. Dr. Uncapher has been recognized as a MacArthur Scholar for her work in the field.